Groves Resources

11th Grade

Physics

• CrashCourse Physics

Test Prep

• BenchPrep (free ACT)
• Official SAT Practice (Khan Academy - SAT)
• PrepFactory
• SAT Vocab by Mindsnacks or SAT Vocab by Brainscape (iPhone apps)
• The 100th Anniversary of Robert Frost’s Poem, “The Road Not Taken”
• The new SAT, explained in 7 annotated sample questions

Excel

• Just War
  • Songs: War, Blowin' In The Wind
  • In Our Time: Just War
  • Matthew 26:52
  • Is This A Just War? (Kosovo)
  • Just War Theory (Wikipedia)
  • Thomas Aquinas On War

U.S. History

• U.S. History Explained
• AP US History Review Videos
• Engines Of Our Ingenuity: 1187: Good/Bad - People/Machines

10th Grade

Chemistry

• High School Chemistry with iPads
• The Elements - A Visual Exploration
• Laws of Conservation of Mass
• Measurement
• States of Matter
• Gas Laws

Digital Music

• Beat Making Lab

Excel

Civil War

• Turning Points in American History - Second Great Awakening, Abolition, Homestead Act?, and Antietam
• Lincoln (13th Amendment)
• Mission 2: Flight To Freedom
• Crash Course 20 - The Civil War Part 1 (causes)

Reconstruction

• Turning Points in American History - 14th Amendment

Westward Expansion

• Turning Points in American History - Transportation Revolution, Mexican War, Homestead Act
• Manifest Destiny
• Native American and US gov't conflict
  • Life Among The Piutes
• Populism
• Railroads
• Mission 3: A Cheyenne Odyssey

Gilded Age

• Mission 4: City of Immigrants

WWII

• Holocaust

Books

• Summer Read
• Frederick Douglass
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Walt Whitman
• Catcher In The Rye
  • BBC2 The Big Read (start at 56 minutes)
• Of Mice And Men
• Great American Authors Since 1650
  • James Fenimore Cooper
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Walt Whitman
  • Mark Twain
  • F Scott Fitzgerald
• Great American Bestsellers (audio course)
  • The Last of The Mohicans
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • The Catcher In The Rye
• The Skeptics Guide to American History
  • Second Great Awakening
  • Did Slavery Really Cause the Civil War?
  • The Civil War's Actual Turning Points

Movies

• Last Of The Mohicans (lit)
• Amistad
• Tom Sawyer or Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Civil War
  • Ken Burns documentary The Civil War*
  • American Experience - Reconstruction: The Second Civil War*
• WWII
  • The Longest Day*
  • The Great Escape*
  • The Best Years of Our Lives*
  • Red Tails
  • Against The Odds*
• Mark Twain - PBS
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• Far and Away*
• Prohibition - Ken Burns
• The Great Gatsby (lit)
• Native American Experience
  • How The West Was Lost
  • 500 Nations
• African American Experience
  • Roots
  • Africans In America
  • Selma

Music

• Subterranean Homesick Blues - Dylan - Shmoop
• Common, John Legend - Glory
• Jazz - Ken Burns
• The Times, They Are a Changin - Dylan
• For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield - Reason To Rock
• A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
• Dancing in the Street - Martha and the Vandellas - Wikipedia
• You Haven't Done Nothin' - Stevie Wonder
• Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Geometry

• DragonBox Elements
• Geometry: An Interactive Journey to Mastery (Great Courses Video)

9th Grade

Algebra 1

• Algebra I (Great Courses videos)
• DragonBox Algebra 12+
• Practice With Exponents
• SparkNotes Math

Biology

• Biology (class textbook from iBook Store)
• Cracking the Code of Life (PBS)
• Discovery Education: Greatest Discoveries With Bill Nye Genetics
• DNA (PBS)
• Elements of Biology: Genetics
• E.O. Wilson's Life on Earth
• Quizlet Flashcards
• The Standard Deviants - Learn Biology

English

• The Odyssey
  • The Adventures of Ulysses (audiobook)
  • "Clash of the Gods" Intro to the Odyssey
  • In Search of the Trojan War (BBC)
  • Introduction to the Odyssey
  • O Brother, Where Art Though? (DVD)
  • The Odyssey (Fagles audiobook)
  • The Odyssey (graphic novel)
  • The Odyssey ("Across the Universe" by the Beatles)
  • Troy (National Geographic)
  • Ulysses (DVD)
  • The Odyssey (iTunes)
• Romeo & Juliet
  • Romeo and Juliet The Graphic Novel: Quick Text (two other versions available)
  • Shakespeare In Bits: Romeo & Juliet (iPad app)
  • SmartPass Plus Audio Education Study Guide to Romeo and Juliet (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options)
  • West Side Story
• To Kill A Mockingbird
  • Great American Bestsellers (audio course) - To Kill A Mockingbird
  • CLTV - Race, Class, and Gender in To Kill a Mockingbird
• Summer Reading
  • The Rock and The River
  • Running For My Life
• Vocabulary
  • Quizlet Flashcards

Intro to Energy

• The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits
• Electric Circuits
• Intro to Electronic Components
• MIT Videos (57 - Circuits, 62 - Series & Parallel Circuits, & 97 - Holiday Lights)
• Mousetrap Cars
• Snap Circuits Jr

Spanish 2

• Babbel
• Duolingo
• Mango (BTPL)
• Quizlet Flashcards

World History A

• Andrew Marr's History of The World
  • Survival (Episode 1)
  • Age of Empire (Episode 2)
  • 3
  • Into the Light (Episode 4 - Middle Ages)
• Big History
  • 7. Agriculture & Civilization
    • Threshold 7 —Agriculture
    • Why Was Agriculture So Important?
    • Where and Why Did the First Cities and States Appear?
    • Intro to History
    • A Big History of Everythingq
• Crash Course
  • World History
    • Migrations and Intensification: Crash Course Big History #7
    • Buddha and Ashoka: Crash Course World History #6
    • Christianity from Judaism to Constantine: Crash Course World History #11
    • Islam, the Quran, and the Five Pillars All Without a Flamewar: Crash Course World History #13
    • The Dark Ages...How Dark Were They, Really?: Crash Course World History #14
  • Rethinking Civilization - Crash Course World History 201
• Mankind The Story of All Of Us (episodes 2 & 3)
  • Classroom Guide
• Middle Ages & Feudalism
  • Feudalism - Europe
  • Popular Feudalism & Middle Ages videos
• MrZoller
  • Manorialism
  • Medieval Christian Church
• Prentice Hall World History (class textbook from iBook Store)
• Quizlet Flashcards
• A Street Through Time (picture book)
• A Teenage Girl Explains Different Forms of Government
• Who Was Genghis Khan? (iBook)
• MI High School Content Expectations
• https://resourcesforhistoryteachers.wikispaces.com/

World History B

• Overall
  • Mankind (Episodes 6 - 11)
• Renaissance
  • Big History
    • How Did the World Become Interconnected
  • Mankind (Episodes 6 & 7)
  • Medici (PBS)
  • Power of the Past: Florence
  • The Renaissance: Was it a Thing? - Crash Course World History #22
  • PBS' Empires - The Medici: Birth of a Dynasty
  • A Little History of The World - Chapter 26 A New Age
• The Reformation
  • Luther and the Protestant Reformation: Crash Course World History #218
  • Martin Luther: Driven to Defiance
  • PBS' Empires - Martin Luther
  • A Little History of The World - Chapter 28 A New Faith
  • Andrew Marr's History of the World (BBC) - Episode 6: Revolution
• Absolutism
  • Wolf Hall (Henry VIII)
• The Columbian Exchange
  • The Columbian Exchange: Crash Course World History #23
  • Turning Points in American History - The Great Epidemic
• Age of Reason
  • Hobbes, Locke & Rousseau
  • Andrew Marr's History of the World (BBC) - Episode 6: Revolution
• French Revolution & Napoleon
  • Empires: Napoleon
  • Andrew Marr's History of the World (BBC) - Episode 6: Revolution
  • Mankind (Episodes 8-10)
• Latin America
  • Haitian Revolutions: Crash Course World History #30
  • Latin American Revolutions: Crash Course World History #31
• Industrial Revolution
  • Coal, Steam, and The Industrial Revolution: Crash Course World History #32
  • Turning Points in American History - Samuel Slater
• Imperialism
• The Great War
• Russian Revolution & Nationalism in Asia
• Causes of World War II
• World History